10. Je les lis tous les mois.

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Planning to visit France, Belgium,Switzerland, or another country where they speak
French. Do you need French fora bilingual position. Maybe you've been meaning
to start learning this beautiful language foryears. You've been dreaming about being able
to pronounce French properly and with agood French accent. Well, we've got
sixty five free beginner French conversation practicesessions waiting for you at fun and Free

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dot fluency fix dot com. Butbefore you practice with your virtual conversation practice
partner, let's have a quick manylesson first so that you'll really ace the
conversation. Ready, let's go Now, here's your teacher to explain a few

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things you'll need to know before youpractice the conversation with your virtual practice partner.
Hello, and welcome to begin aFrench lesson ten. Today we're talking
about two people meeting for the firsttime again. This time it's two co
workers. Does your company have anoverseas office in a French country. Perhaps

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you'll have an opportunity to meet youroverseas counterparts one day and practice your French.
The conversation starts with Salu to arobin Espa, Salu to a robert
nespa salu. To a robern espasalu is how we say high or hello

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in French. Let's look at thenext part of this sentence. It has
a lot of words we've seen before. Actually we've seen all of them except
for the staff member's name Robin.So let's start with to a in the
phrase to a robin, to arobin, to a robin to a to

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a to a simply means you are. And we learned this when we conjugated
the verb to b, which ish. Let's conjugate it one more time,
just as a reminder. I amjust suis you are to a he

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she is il l e we arenewsom. You are polite or plural wouzette.
They are masculine or feminine il lsum. The last part of the
sentence contains that sandwich we mentioned,which makes French sentences negative. At the

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top of the sandwich is n andat the bottom is pah. In the
middle we have se, which meansit is, but we have it turned
backwards to make it a question,so instead of meaning it isn't, it
is a question which means isn't itnespa nespa nespa. This is a tird

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question. It's a kind of questionwhere you're pretty sure you know the answer,
but you're just checking for confirmation.In today's conversation, it just means
right, or aren't you, asin your robin right or your robin aren't
you. Altogether, we get salua. Next, we have we to departem

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marketing sesa to a don l departuremarqueting says sa. We totem marketing sesa
don't don't. Dan means in leu, as we've discussed before, means the

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and de partuments marketing means marketing department. Finally, we have another tag question,
sessa cessa cessa. We've seen thesewords a few times before. In
this context, cessa also just meansright. The coworker responds with, we

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Jean vartujolle newsletter de la company.We jean voar toujeou les newsletter de la
compagny. We Jean vartujolle newsletter dela compagny. The verbs en voiller means
to send. Let's conjugate it.Now, I send gan vois. You

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send to anvois. He She sendsil l anvois. We send neusau voillu
you send polite or plerole vusa vollisthey send masculine or feminine. I ll
e le soanvois to day, wejust need I send gauvois genvois gauvois.

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Next we learn a brand new word. It means always. That word is
tou jeous to jeu tou jeus.We have already discussed lee la and leis
the masculine, feminine and plural formof the So we just put the plural

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form les in front of newsletter dela compangni, which means company newsletters,
and we get leneues letter de lacompangni Les newsletter de la compagni le neues
letters de la company. Altogether wehave we jean vous let de la compaign

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Finally, the staff member replies withsa edi nor memo. Julii tu lemoi.
Sa edi nor memo means it helpsa lot, or it's really helpful.
The word ed in this sentence comesfrom the verb eddi, which means
to help. Let's conjugate it.Now, I help jed, you help

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to ed he she it helps illel sa ed we help nu zed you
help polite or plural vuzedi. Theyhelp masculine or feminine ill l zed.
Today we just need sa ed,which means it helps. Next we have

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julleli tuo lemoi je leli tou lemoi. Jullelli tu lemoi. It means I
read them every month. In thisbeginner course, we don't want to get
too much into grammar, because we'llgo into grammar a little more in a
future course. But here you havethe direct object le le le. It

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is used like this. Jour lelle replaces the word newsletters, and even
though we don't see the word newslettersin this sentence, jeur lelie means I
read the newsletters. The word letakes on the meaning of them. If,
for example, I want it tosay I write the company newsletters every

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month, I would use the verbe kui, which means to write,
and I would say joe lai ziqui I write them. The structure is
you take the replacement word and youput it in front of the verb.
In our case, it is theverb lee, which means to read.

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On this we get Julie I read, and then Julii I read them.
Moi means month two means every andso we get to Lemoi to les Moi,
to Lemois every month altogether Julielli tolemoi. Since we just learned a

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new verb lire lire lie, whichmeans to read, let's conjugate it quickly.
I read Julie, you read toLee. He she reads el el
Lee. We read new Lison.You read polite opera role vo Lizzie,

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and they read masculine or feminine ilLiz sa ede nor memon Julii to Lemois.
So today you've learned a few tagquestions that you can use to confirm
information when you're not sure. You'vealso learned three new verbs envoyer to send,
ed, to help, and leeto read. Now you've learned everything

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you need to know to ACE ConversationPractice Session ten. Now you're ready to
practice this conversation with your Virtual ConversationPractice partner. Just click Beginner French at
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